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HISTORIAN APPEALS FOR RESEARCH FUNDS; Prof. Munro Says $1,000,000 Is Needed to Fill Up Gaps in American History. MUCH NOW IN OBSCURITY Valuable Relics Exposed to Loss -- Wants Unprejudiced Study of Pending Problems.

Some of the serious gaps in American history and the difficulties in filling them were discussed yesterday by Prof. Dana C. Munro of Princeton. President of the American Historical Association, which is appealing for an endowment of $1,000,000 to enable American historians to carry on research toward clearing of obscure and doubtful passages of American history.